Materialized views, a rdbms silver bullet, demonstrate its efficacy in many applications, especially as a data warehousing/decison support system tool. The pivot of playing materia...
—Scheduling task graphs under hard (end-to-end) timing constraints is an extensively studied NP-hard problem of critical importance for predictable software mapping on Multiproce...
In hedonic games, players have the opportunity to form coalitions, and have preferences over the coalitions they might join. Such games can be used to model a variety of settings ...
A sequence of reversals that takes a signed permutation to the identity is perfect if it preserves all common intervals between the permutation and the identity. The problem of com...
Abstract. This paper proposes a natural extension of conditional functional dependencies (cfds [14]) and conditional inclusion dependencies (cinds [8]), denoted by cfdp s and cindp...